“The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
“The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.”
“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.”
“Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.”
“Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.”
“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.”
“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”
“First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.”